Orkut

It's the new Friendster...but affiliated with Google!

Here's their description:

orkut.com is an online community website designed for friends. The main goal of our service is to make your social life, and that of your friends, more active and stimulating. orkut's social network can help you both maintain existing relationships as well as establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before. Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can even see how they're connecting to you through the friends network.

orkut makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old college buddies or even exchange cookie recipes.

Actually it seems to be much better than friendster. The best part about it is that it's faster. I got so frustrated when I first signed up to friendster that I just gave up.

Orkut has a few new/different features. It has communities, which works a lot better than how people tried to make it work on Friendster. There's information that you only keep to yourself. For example, you can put someone on your "add to crush-list", which you'll only be able to see. Then if that other person clicks on you as well as a crush, a message will be sent.

I found it really funny that they called it Orkut, because that's the guy's name at Google that started it.

Yeah, I'm bored...that's why I'm wasting time on Orkut. I really should be studying.

(BTW, to join you have to get an invite from a current user...if you want to check it out, msg me)